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This took awhile to make and I burned up a lathe. Since I had never turned anything like this before i glued it up way to thick. When I started turning it weighed it at 75 pounds. It now stands 12 inches tall and 12 inches wide and weighs 5 pounds. I wanted to make it thiner, but my lathe started acting up again.

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Excellent work. Very fitting for first place. Too bad about the lathe. They say turning can be an expensive hobby, but you don't expect that.
 

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It's realy big, but you have done some outstanding job. I like the pattern.
 

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Congratulations, lovely job on the vase
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Beautiful piece. 70lb of shavings?! Cap'n Eddie would be proud!
 

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I did learn a lot about gluing up a piece that size. I can tell you I should have started on a 4 inch piece and worked up to the larger one.
 

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It certainly deserves the award, nice work.
 

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looks great!!!!
 

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Going for 75 pounds to 5 pounds must have resulted in quite a pile of shavings. Must have taken a lot of turning time. I am not sure I would have persisted to finish the project. Congratulations on sticking it out and producing such a nice result.
 

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It made around three wheelbarrows of shavings and I worked off and on it for three years.
It was just a project that I had to get in the mood to work on. At first it was so out out of round a conventional wheel steady rest would not have worked. So I had to mount a skateboard to the lathe to keep the vase on the lathe. The floating wheels kept it from tearing out of the mounting.
 
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